| Summary: | The client presents with chronic anxiety, triggered most recently by the third postponement of her wedding (this time due to flights canceled because of weather). Dr. Diana Fosha identifies the main source of the client's anxiety by asking what the client would feel like if the anxiety were gone. Dr. Fosha uses imagery exercises and assesses somatic reactions in the client, who reveals that she doesn't want her "dark cloud" to disappear entirely. The client further, reluctantly reveals that the "dark cloud" is residual emotional trauma experienced in a physically abusive relationship she had between the ages of 16 and 18. Dr. Fosha suggests that the anxiety and emotionality the client has experienced ever since that relationship are the result of unresolved issues.
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